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title: Proverbs 5:4 (JPS 1917) — But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. · tree and pragmatics
description: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Who acts: end. Proverbs 5:4 in JPS 1917 with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Proverbs 5:4 · JPS 1917

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But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.

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**Who acts:** end · **What happens:** be

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This is Proverbs 5:4 · JPS 1917 in the English of the Jewish Publication Society's 1917 translation, from Mova's open Bible corpus. The page gives the sentence's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, parsed by Mova and checked by a teacher model — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (end), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it. The original of the verse links back to its own tree and to the Targum.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = jps:PRO:121
# text = But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	bitter	bitter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	wormwood	wormwood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	as	as	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
12	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	advmod	_	_
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	_
14	edged	edge	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: narrate
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | woman's end |  |  |  |  | as wormwood; bitter *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | woman's end *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a edged sword | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The Hebrew of this verse {#hebrew}

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וְֽ֭אַחֲרִיתָהּ מָרָ֣ה כַֽלַּעֲנָ֑ה חַ֝דָּ֗ה כְּחֶ֣רֶב פִּיּֽוֹת׃

[Proverbs 5:4: the Hebrew tree, its pragmatics and the Targum →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.5.4/)

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**Source.** The Holy Scriptures according to the Masoretic Text, Jewish Publication Society, 1917, from eBible.org: public domain. Sentence `jps:PRO:121` of Mova's parse database.

**The tree and the speech act** come from Mova's cycle: the small model's draft, read by a large model as teacher, passed by Mova's gates (Elamur Cosmic License). **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the chapter read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence of the chapter.

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